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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of SlavesOne woman's struggle to restore an old slave cemetery uncovers centuries-old racism When China Galland visited her childhood hometown in east Texas, she learned of an unmarked cemetery for slaves-Love Cemetery. Her ensuing quest to restore and reclaim the cemetary unearths racial wounds that...
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Louisiana Visits Franz Gertsch: Postwar and Contemporary Art in DialogueArtworks from Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Gerhard Richter and more in dialogue with Gertsch's photorealistic paintingsThe Louisiana Museum brings 50 works by more than 30 artists to show at the Museum Franz Gertsch alongside his own art, creating a web of movements that can...
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Los Angeles UnderworldFrom the blackhanders and bootleggers of the early 20th century to political corruption and the rise and eventual toppling of a Mafia family, the history of organized crime in Los Angeles visually chronicled within this work possesses the same level of intrigue, glamour, and...
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Living with the Army II: The Results of Remote Sensing and Fieldwalking Surveys in Novae (Lower Moesia)This book presents the results of a research project realised in 2012-14 in the surroundings of the Roman legionary base at Novae (Moesia inferior), transformed in late Antiquity into a civilian town. The publication also contains material from surveys conducted in 1977 and in...
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Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its BorderlandsThis volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising parallels among slave cultures across the continent. Although they focus on North America, these...
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L'Infini Dans Un Roseau: L'Invention Des Livres Dans l'AntiquiteL'amour des livres et de la lecture respire a travers ce chef-d'oeuvre. Je suis absolument certain qu'il sera lu meme lorsque ses actuels lecteurs seront passes dans l'au-dela. Mario Vargas Llosa Vallejo a judicieusement decide de se liberer du style academique pour choisir la...
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Life in Early Medieval WalesResearch for and the writing of this book was funded by the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c. AD300--1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life...
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Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable TruthsFrom the 2005 Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all...
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Life and Death at a Nubian Monastery: The Collected Funerary Epigraphy from GhazaliThe Christian monastery of Ghazali, located in Wadi Abu Dom, in northern Sudan, is one of the most famous archaeological sites within the country. Built by the Makurians in the seventh century AD, it flourished until its abandonment in the thirteenth century, and its...
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Liberty of Conscience: The History of a Puritan IdeaAuthor: L. John VanPublisher: P & R PublishingPublished: 01/22/1992Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.49w x 0.53dISBN: 9780875524603This title is not returnable
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LibertyAward-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee's "exquisitely detailed...reverent, absorbing homage" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the Statue of Liberty--now with a new look! "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." These famous words mark the pedestal of the most colossal...
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L'Evoluzione del Pensiero Scientifico Dall'antica Grecia AI Giorni Nostri: Appunti E Riflessioni Su Eventi E ProtagonistiLa scienza, come ogni cosa al mondo, ha avuto un inizio, un'origine. Sebbene non si possa stabilire con precisione il momento esatto degli esordi, il contributo della civilt? greca, come ampiamente attestato dai documenti, ? stato cruciale; molti, tra cui l'autore, lo considerano essenziale...
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L'Evolution de la Connaissance: Repenser La Science Pour l'AnthropoceneAuthor: Raymond Clarinard, Jurgen RennPublisher: Les Belles LettresPublished: 10/07/2022Pages: 600Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 6.87lbsISBN: 9782251453361This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Le Temple de Ptah a Karnak III: La FavissaIn December 2014, excavation near the temple of Ptah in Karnak uncovered a favissa--a pit filled with objects--dug a few meters behind the shrine of the god. The pit contained thirty-eight objects, statues, statuettes and statuary elements, in limestone, greywacke, copper alloy and Egyptian...
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Les Francais a Constantinople de Francois Ier a BonaparteSi des Francais sont attestes a Constantinople bien avant sa conquete par les Ottomans en 1453, leur communaute ne s'y structura qu'a partir du regne de Francois Ier. Des marchands et artisans francais s'y etablirent dans les quartiers europeens, y firent parfois souche et...
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Le Pere Du Siecle: The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429): Theological Authority Between Middle Ages and Early Modern EraThis volume provides the first wide-ranging investigation of the post-fifteenth-century reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chancellor of the University of Paris, guiding light of the Council of Constance, and arguably the most influential of late medieval theologians. His impact on early modern movements and...
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Leonardo Da Vinci and ArchitectureFound scattered among his numerous manuscripts, Leonardo's studies on architecture were conceived during an artistic journey of close to fifty years while their author was in the service of the most prestigious patrons. Dealing with churches, ephemeral monuments, urban reconstruction, fortifications, palaces and villas,...
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Le Fascisme Japonais (1931-1945): Analyse Et InterpretationPourquoi un regime qui semblait devenir une democratie liberale depuis la fin du XIXe siecle a-t-il emprunte dans les annees 1930 une voie qui l'a fait comparer aux fascismes europeens ? Contrairement a l'Italie et a l'Allemagne, le Japon a bascule dans l'ultranationalisme sans...
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Le Chevalier Dans l'HistoireUne histoire magistrale des origines, de la vie quotidienne et de la legende des chevaliers. Ne du chaos europeen du debut du Moyen Age, le chevalier monte et en armure a revolutionne la guerre et est tres vite devenu une figure mythique dans l'histoire....
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La Vulgate Au Xvie Siecle: Les Travaux Sur La Traduction Latine de la BibleAuthor: Brepols PublishersPublisher: Brepols PublishersPublished: 11/30/2020Pages: 282Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsISBN: 9782503592794Language: SpanishThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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